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Gelsemium threat group

Gelsemium is a threat group. Public reporting links it to attacks on government, electronics manufacturers and universities organisations, with 18 countries and victims named. This free profile brings together what is known about it, so you can judge the risk to you.

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Attack techniques
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Countries and victims named
18
Thought to operate from
Not known
Other names
1
Built from public reporting, with every source listed below.
Overview

Who is Gelsemium?

Gelsemium has 1 other name in security research. Below is what published reporting says about it, with a link to every report so you can check the detail yourself.

Also known as

狼毒草

Security companies each give the same group their own name, so one group can have many.

What public reporting says

The Gelsemium group has been active since at least 2014 and was described in the past by a few security companies. Gelsemium’s name comes from one possible translation ESET found while reading a report from VenusTech who dubbed the group 狼毒草 for the first time. It’s the name of a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gelsemiaceae, Gelsemium elegans is the species that contains toxic compounds like Gelsemine, Gelsenicine and Gelsevirine, which ESET choses as names for the three components of this malware family.

Public reports about Gelsemium (4)

Targets

Who does Gelsemium go after?

The sectors and places named in public reporting about this group. If yours is on the list, it is worth knowing how they work and which flaws they use.

Sectors (4)

GovernmentElectronics ManufacturersUniversitiesReligious organization
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Countries and victims named (18)

  1. 01North Korea
  2. 02South Korea
  3. 03Japan
  4. 04China
  5. 05Mongolia
  6. 06Egypt
  7. 07Saudi Arabia
  8. 08Yemen
  9. 09Oman
  10. 10Iran
  11. 11Iraq
  12. 12Kuwait
  13. 13Israel
  14. 14Jordan
  15. 15Gaza
  16. 16Syria
  17. 17Turkey
  18. 18Lebanon
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Gelsemium is a threat group. Public reporting links it to attacks on government, electronics manufacturers and universities organisations, with 18 countries and victims named.

In public reporting, sectors named include government, electronics manufacturers, universities and religious organization, and 18 countries and victims are named, including North Korea, South Korea, Japan and China.

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